Bottle.



0. H. JEWETT.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1912.

1,055,400. Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

one Ii. JEWE'IT, or s'r. PAUL, INDIANA. v

BOTTLE. 1

Specification of LLetters Patent.

Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

Application filed June 25,1912. Serial No. 705,750.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORA H. J EwE'rr, a c1t1- zen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Decatur and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The objectof this invention is to provide a glass bottle of such construction that the removal of its original contents will compel the mutilation of the bottle to such an extent that it cannot be again used without the mutilated port-ion acting as a tell-tale of such second use, and the object, also, is to provide 7 a device of the above character which will not interfere with the full and free use of the original contents of the bottle.

- I accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1,

is side elevation and partial vertical section of a bottle embodying my improvements, the view showing the cap surrounding the neck but raised above the shoulder of the bottle. Fig. 2' shows the bottle in vertical section with the cap seated in the neck, the cap being in part side .elevation andpart vertical section, and Fig. 3 is a. detail in vertical section on a larger scale of a modified form of my device.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

1 is the body of the bottle, 2 the neck, both of any suitable and usual construction, and 3 is the shoulder of the bottle which differs from the usual construction in that it is provided with an annular channel 4 surrounding the neck. This channel will preferably be formed with screw-threads 5 in its outer walls. Y

6 is a cap, preferably made out of glass in the form of an inverted cup which has an opening to its interior only at its lower end. This lower end of the cup 6 is provided with screw-threads 7 on its outer periphery, and this threaded end of the cap is adapted to be screwed loosely into the channel 4 in the neck of the bottle. Before the threaded end of the cap 6 is introduced into the channel 4 the latter is partially filled with a suitable cement, plaster or other sealing material which will be in a plastic condition when introduced into the channel and also while the cap is being ,screwed into place ,in said channel, but "which will afterward become hard and set ;so as to prevent the removal of the cap. iThe threaded end of the cap will make a an sufiiciently loose fit in the channel 4 to permit the cement 8 to be forced up around the end of the cap between it and the wall I of the channel 4, as shown in Fig. 2. The

cap 6 will preferably be provided with an annular outer shoulder -9 at the limit ofits threaded portion, to make a neat finish above and to protect the cement material 8. The inner wall of the cap will also be provided with a flange or head 10 to stop the insertion of the end of the cap into channel 4. Inorder to more. effectually prevent the turning and unscrewing of the cap in channel 4 after it has been cemented in said channel, I prefer to provide the lower end of the cap with indentations or notches 12, into which the cement will enter and harden and serve as a lock against any possible rotary and unscrewing movement of the cap.

The manner-of using myinvention is as follows: The bottle 1 is first filled with the material which it is intended to contain, and the neck 2 is then closed by means of a cork 13 in the usual manner. Then the desired quantity of cement is introduced into the channel 4, and thereupon the inverted glass cap 6 is introduced and screwed into the channel 4 as far as it will go, that is, until arrested by the head 10. After the cement has hardened the removal of the cap 6 is impossible without breaking the cap. This will be accomplished by any of the well known and usual methods thereby exposing the neck 2 and its stopper, or cork 13 and by the withdrawal of the cork 13 the contents of the bottle is available. When a desired quantity, less than the contents of the bottle, has been used the remaindenmay be preserved by replacing the cork 13 in the usual manner. On account of the portion of the cap 6 which must always remain in the bottle this remaining portion will act as a tell-tale to indicate that the bottle has been opened and its original contents removed or tampered with, and the public will thus be warned against any attempt to place spurious merchandise in the original package.

In the modification, shown in Fig. 3, the outer wall of the channel is beveled inwardly to retain the cement and the prevent the removal of the'ca threaded construction is omitted. The end of the ap 6 is made. we -shape, as shown, so that when introduced-mtothe channel in the neck of the bottle and. the cement a plied the space between the oblique was and prevent any rotary movement of the cap in the channel of the shoulder.

While I have described my invention with more or less minuteness as regards details of construction and arrangement and as being embodied in certain precise forms, I do not desire to be limited thereto unduly or any more than is pointed out in the claims.

On the contrary, I contemplate all proper changes in form, construction, and arrangement, the omission of immaterial elements and the substitution of equivalents, as circumstances may suggest ornecessity render expedient.

I claima The combination of a bottle having a hollow neck and an annular channel around the neck, said channel havingserew-threads in its wall, an inverted cup-shaped cap surrounding said neck having screw-threads in its wall adjacent its 0 en end and having indentations'in its en said threaded-en being screwed into the threaded channel in the neck of the bottle and cement in the channel to seal the joint.

In witness whereof, I, have hereunto set myhand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana this 10th day of June, A. D. one thousan nine hundred and twelve.

' ORA HFJEWETT. [1.. s.]

Witnesses:

- F. W. Wommnn,

L. B. WOERNER. 

